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While Liverpool have won twice on their travels this season, they now sit ninth in the league – and their main issue seems fairly clear.
They have scored just seven goals this season – just twice at Anfield – and only seven teams have managed fewer.
It was early on in the first half when the cameras panned to Alexander Isak, Cody Gakpo and Dominik Szoboszlai in the Main Stand
It seems a long time ago now, but go back to the day that Liverpool sealed the Premier League title under Arne Slot in 2025 and there is a lovely clip of Alexis Mac Allister.
As the final whistle goes and the players run on to the pitch to celebrate, Mac Allister sits alone on the bench and starts to cry., external
That day, when the Argentina midfielder scored
A vision was set out to Guimaraes when he joined a club fighting relegation.
Newcastle‘s hierarchy at the time said they did not just want to go on to qualify for the Champions League – they ultimately wanted to win it.
Newcastle have twice since sat at Europe’s top table, but they are a long way off from taking that next step.
It was rather telling that Isak pushed
Matt Ritchie sensed it.
He knew what could happen if Howe “got hold of them” and “had some firepower”, after previously working with the manager at Bournemouth.
“When I first arrived, I would talk about Eddie Howe and Bournemouth,” said the 36-year-old winger, who played for Newcastle between 2016 and 2024 and now at Reading.
“The lads would say, ‘come on, drop it, he can’t have been that good’. But
It is instructive to note that Howe was fielding similar questions nearly a year ago.
Newcastle had just gone a whopping 50 corners without scoring in the Premier League – but they eventually started firing again.
By the time Newcastle contested last season’s Carabao Cup final in March, Howe even sensed an opportunity as he stressed to his staff that “a set-play could win us the game… let’s go into
Sheffield Wednesday, who are run by owner Dejphon Chansiri, have had cashflow issues for some time.
There has been no official explanation by Chansiri on what has led to the problem but things have escalated recently.
The club has gone from delayed payments to His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) in 2023 and 2024 to players, coaches and staff now not being paid on time in both May and June.
There isn’t enough deception in football tactics.
There are the ‘dark arts’ of defending, the dummy and the no-look pass. But where are the Trojan horses, the tactical decoys?
Players are getting more versatile all the time and (most) managers are too, regularly changing formation between matches and within them. In fact, a lot of managers these days would reject the idea of the formation.
But there are still basic
It’s equally tight at the top of the Championship with the sides chasing promotion engaged in a long-running game of pass the parcel.
Sheffield United, Leeds United, Burnley and Sunderland have all exchanged places at the summit in recent weeks and only three points separate the top four.
Leeds take on Middlesbrough at Elland Road on Tuesday evening, who themselves are eyeing a return to the Premier League after winning
On the face of it, Luton’s problems are plain and simple for all to see.
“We’ve not scored enough goals and not kept enough clean sheets,” former Luton defender Leon Barnett told BBC Three Counties Radio’s sport show.
Luton have scored just eight times. Only bottom side Cardiff and Preston North End have managed fewer.
They are also leaking goals with only the bottom three sides conceding more than
BBC Radio Derby commentator Ed Dawes on what’s going wrong at the Rams
By Total Football NewsThe baptism of fire new Derby County head coach John Eustace has walked into has all the hallmarks of someone buying a car and then realising it is a cut and shut.
The Rams are unable to move away from the relegation zone in the Championship because nobody can find the accelerator to park the car in the garage, or goal.
Cars aside, the job in hand for Eustace will